9.23.24Kieron Walquist is one of the winners of the 2024 National Poetry Series for Our Hands Hold Violence, forthcoming from Beacon Press.
1.22.21Zenique Gardner Perry wins 2020 "Illuminating Black Lives" fellowship at Writers' Colony of Dairy Hollow
4.28.20MFA students Matt Weinstock and Joe Gutierrez win 1st and 2nd place in Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition
1.31.20Professor Mary Jo Bang's translation of Stars on Earth by Shuzo Takiguchi published in LARB's Quarterly Journal
11.20.19Professors Danielle Dutton and Kathryn Davis are mentioned in Literary Hub list of 20 best novels of the decade
11.8.19Poet and Pulitzer Finalist Diane Seuss to Join MFA Faculty as Visiting Lecturer and Writer for Spring 2020
5.21.19MFA Fiction faculty Kathryn Davis and Danielle Dutton both have stories in the new issue of Conjunctions
10.10.18MFA Alum Katya Apekina's debut novel, "The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish," published by Two Dollar Radio
8.31.18MFA student Paul Tran receives 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship
8.29.18MFA alums' essay published in "They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing"
2.27.18Cassie Donish (MFA 2016)'s chapbook "On the Mezzanine" chosen as the winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition